Academic Technology is proud to introduce a new live segment to provide monthly updates on the FSCJ transition to Canvas. On the last Friday of each month, the Educational Technology team will discuss a different piece of the Canvas puzzle. Then we’ll give you, our faculty and staff, an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the transition.

Produced by the Digital Media Productions team, the broadcast will be streamed at live.fscj.edu, then made available here afterward for anyone who is unable to watch live.

We’ll be live Friday, January 25, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

If you have questions about the transition to Canvas, you can submit then in advance using the form below, or email EdTech@fscj.edu during the show.

In this broadcast of In Focus: Student Edition, we’re sharing apps, programs and plugins to make your College life better, organized and more successful.

Innovate to Educate is a series created by Educational Technology and Digital Media Productions to share information about innovative technology being used by our amazing faculty at each of our campuses. In this episode, we speak to Professor Dana Logan about how she uses educational technology in her classroom to engage students.

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This spring, the Academic Technology team collaborated with FSCJ's Author Series committee on a gallery exhibit called Faces of Autism. Combining portraits of young people on the autism spectrum with a video telling their stories, The final portraits were exhibited in the South Campus Art Gallery during a lecture given by Dr. Temple Grandin, the author of their selected book, Thinking in Pictures. Participants on the Autism Spectrum were invited to have their portrait taken at the FSCJ Deerwood Campus in the TV Studio. Here's my artist statement for the project:

What can a portrait convey?

Even with the best of intentions, it’s easy to make a snap judgment about someone based on their features, characteristics, or even an associated label. When I take someone’s portrait I hope to provide a glimpse into who the individual is at the moment the image is taken. The viewer then has the opportunity to create their own interpretation.

The Faces of Autism project invites its audience to view the faces of young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and see them as they are, without predefined ideas of what it means to be autistic. With this project, there is a focus on the unique attributes of each individual.

The exhibit has an added dimension of including behind the scenes footage of the photo shoots. During this time I work to create a connection with my subject, which is the most important thing to me, necessary to create a good portrait, and what separates portraiture from other types of photography.

We hope those who attend this exhibit leave with a sense that we are all more alike than different and that anything is possible with strength, support, and perseverance. One thing I know for sure is the differences in how an ASD person's brain works may make them more, not less, qualified to understand, accomplish otherwise unsolvable tasks, and perform in extremely creative ways.

While the portraits were being taken, the TV Studio team recorded the conversation and interaction that occur behind the scenes of a photo shoot. The questions asked and answers provide an added dimension to the project. Here's the video that was produced:

First Coast News engineers have set up their weather data system in the DMP studio in preparation for the coming storm. Meeting the technological needs of FCN requires extensive collaboration with FSCJ's College Information Technology Services department.Click here to see the broadcast of FCN in our studio earlier this week.

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First Coast News engineers stopped by the studio today in preparation for Tropical Storm Erika. FCN is prepared to use our studio as an alternative broadcast location.